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Optic Pathway Glioma

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Radiotherapy of Intraocular and Orbital Tumors

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There is perhaps no other tumor of the eye or orbit whose treatment evokes as much controversy as that of the optic glioma. The reader is left thinking of a group of blind men describing an elephant while each touching a different part of the animal. Different specialists’ preferred options range from no treatment, through partial excision, complete excision and radiation therapy to surgery plus radiotherapy, and now also include chemotherapy. The treatment selected is a direct reflection of the anatomical site of involvement, the symptoms and signs, the age of the patient, and the consequences of surgical extirpation of the lesion and of irradiation.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams Street, Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA

    R. H. Sagerman MD, Facr, G. P. Hatoum MD & S. S. Hahn MD

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA

    Robert H. Sagerman MD, FACR (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Radiotherapy and Radiooncology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

    Winfried E. Alberti MD (Professor) (Professor)

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Sagerman, R.H., Hatoum, G.P., Hahn, S.S. (2003). Optic Pathway Glioma. In: Sagerman, R.H., Alberti, W.E. (eds) Radiotherapy of Intraocular and Orbital Tumors. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55910-5_14

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